An example of an E-Commerce success and its causes

Amazon.com

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) - the American founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com




Amazon.com has a leading edge in the e-commerce world. It has a strong customer base, name recognition, quality assurance, and immense inventory. The ease of use over the Internet has been an important facet Amazon has focused on; more specifically their "1-Click" feature of their web-design allows quick and easy use of their services.


What are the critical success factors of Amazon.com?

Differentiation

Amazon.com is more than just a bookstore. It delivers author interviews,
customer book reviews, pre-release information and out-of-print books by special order. Back office systems and cookies deliver personalized book recommendations to shoppers who have purchased books from Amazon.com. A book recommendation agent tells the prospective buyer "Customers who bought this book also bought:". In all these cases information about the customer and information technology are being used to enhance the customer experience.


Price Differentiation

Amazon differentiates itself mainly on the basis of price and by making sure that it offers the same quality products as any other company with a noticeably lower price. In addition, sellers do not pay any fees for product listing and it cost nothing until the product is sold.


Personalizing Website

Amazon greets customers personally when they open the sites and gives them a choice of products that matches their personal preferences.

Video : Amazon.com 's Warehouse

Identify and compare the revenue model for Google, Amazon.com and ebay

Google revenue model mainly is based on advertising. For year 2006, google generated US$ 10,492 billions in advertising and US$112 millions in licensing and others. One of the google revenue model is from Google AdWords.

Google AdWords is a pay per click advertising program of Google designed to allow the advertisers to present advertisements to people at the instant the people are looking for information related to what the advertiser has to offer.

For example:




Amazon.com also is one of the most successful e-commerce providers in which its revenue model are mostly generated from transaction fees, affiliate fees and subscription fees. Amazon started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified its product lines from DVD to food.
They also have to rate the product on a rating scale from one to five stars. Moreover, the users are allows to comment on reviews. The key successful of Amazon.com is online shopping. This is the example of Amazon.com homepage.







For eBay, is an online auction and shopping Web site in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. Ebay allow people to bid any time any where, this convenience has increase the number of bidders. It also owns PayPal, Skype, StubHub, and other business. Thus, it has various types of revenue models included advertising fees, affiliate fees and other revenue sources but it main revenue model is from online auction and online shopping.

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E- commerce site : Revenue model of Google, Amazon and eBay

E- divas : Revenue model of Google, Amazon and eBay

About Me...Sh@ron tan

hi everyone, here I am gonna introduce me myself to you all. First of all, I am Tan Shell Peng or you can also call me sharon. I was born in a sweet family which consist of my parents, two brothers and one sister. i am the third child in my family. I'm from Klang, Selangor which is place consist a lot delicious foods. One of the most famous is the Bak Kut Teh.


The activities that i do during my freetime is online and reading novels or magazines. Besides that, I'm also like shopping like the other girls do. The sports activity i love the most is swimming and playing badminton. Usually i will go swimming with my classmate and it will help me to relax my mind and reduce my stress. The top website that i visited almost everyday are Facebook.com, hotmail.com, youtube.com, google.com and sinchew.com.my. Through facebook I can keep in touch with my friends who are study in different states or in foreign countries because it is free and borderless. All the search engines had helped me a lot in my education or in my daily life. There are lot of information available in the World Wide Web and enable me learn many new things and terms. Besides that i can also get the latest news through the online newspapers. By reading news online help me save money and make a little contribution to the environment.


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** Rachel's Profile **

Hi everyone…it’s a pleasure meeting you in our “2YCS” blog. Since we are amateurs in writing blog, any flaws in this blog hope to be forgiven.

Well, Yap Yin Xin is my full name, or you can call me as Rachel. I was born on 26 of April, a “Romanticism” Taurus girl who loves to teach and be taught, always having abstract thoughts in my mind (sometimes just want to make sense of this complicated world), loves to dream and travelling, loves natural, peace, and freedom.

I have been devoting the majority of my free time to do what I interest the most: browsing through the World Wide Web. Browsing the Internet is simply great way to unwind at the end of a tired or stressful day. I’ve discovered that the amazing benefits that come along with the World Wide Web. Not only are you able to access information from, well, basically anywhere but you can also makes friends from across the globe, which makes the world become much more”smaller and compacted” on my laptop screen.

Google.com is my current default homepage; simply due to this is the no.1 most powerful search engine in the Internet nowadays. I like its “Google “logo is always changing according some special events, such as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, April fool’s Day, and etc. The second that

I visit the most will be the Facebook.com, a free-access social networking website, followed by Hotmail.com, Cari.com.my, and Utar.edu.my.

The very wisdom saying that guiding my life is: "Where there's a will, there's a way" The meaning is: if you have the determination to do something, then you will find somehow or some way to achieve it. I always believe that nothing is impossible in this world, if something is truly wanted, it can be achieved or worked out!

Have a brilliant day ~

^^ Crystal's Hobbies ^^

Hai, everyone,welcoming and thank you for visiting our blog. I am Crystal Wong Li Ching and is one of the members of 2YCS. I would like to share some of the information regarding myself with all of you. The most favorite activities that I doing when I am free are window shopping and watching movie. I like to watch comedy movie and enjoy it very much because it make me feel happy and can help me to reduce stress. I also feel excited when watching horror movie although it quite scary.Besides that, my hobby also include reading magazines such as "CLEO" and "ifeel" because through this I can learn and get many new fashion information. The top 5 websites that I visited the most are MSN, google,yahoo,facebook and youtube. Through facebook, I can always contact and know all the latest news of my friends although we are not see each other often. In addition,I get a lot of knowledge from yahoo and google. The top 5 Internet activities that I do the most are chatting with friends,checking mail,surfing the web for information,watching drama or TV shows and playing games.

<< Celyn's Self Introduction >>

My name is Celyn Ho Yan Ling is one of the group member of 2YCS . I am study in UTAR Sungai Long , taking business administration entrepreneurship course.

Actually i don't have specifically hobby, every activities i also want to try it. But the activitity I often do is watching movie. I love watching movie in cinema with my friends, so i have well known knowledge about the pricing in each period . For example which time can use student card or which day is the most chepest day. Other activities may go to Green Box in Cheras Selatan, singing in the ice glass. I will used J card to get free half an hour singing in the ice glass, although may feel shame ,who cares . My classmate and i always go out Yam Cha in Mama restourant.

The top 5 website i visit mostly are facebook , tgv cinema , MSN, Google and PPS online tv. student life is almost like that, the cheapest way to entertain is watching movie online althought most of the website is ilegal but who cares. Haha......